Little Big Town is an American country music vocal group. Founded in 1998, the group has comprised the same four members since its inception: Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet. The quartet’s musical style relies heavily on four-part vocal harmonies, with all four members alternating as lead singers. Westbrook and Sweet also play rhythm guitar.

Little Big Town released their self-titled debut on Monument Records in 2002. It produced the singles “Don’t Waste My Time” and “Everything Changes”, which respectively peaked at #33 and #42 on the Billboard country charts. Their second album, The Road to Here, was released that year. Certified platinum in the U.S., it produced consecutive Top Ten singles on the country charts in “Boondocks” and “Bring It On Home“. A Place to Land is the title of their third album, released in 2007. This album’s first single, “I’m with the Band”, was a Top 40 hit on the country charts.

Little Big Town released their fourth studio album, The Reason Why, on August 24, 2010 via Capitol Nashville.

In March 2010, the group released a new single titled “Little White Church“, as the lead-off single to their fourth studio album and first completely new album on Capitol Nashville, The Reason Why, which was released on August 24, 2010. “Little White Church” has become their highest charted single since “Bring It on Home” reached #4 in 2006. “Kiss Goodbye” will be the album’s second single.

The band regrouped, adding Sven Pipien on bass prior to its next recording sessions. By Your Side was released in January 1999; the album stripped away the more adventurous sounds of Amorica and Three Snakes and One Charm in favor of leaner, soul-influenced songs ready for radio. The album’s more mainstream approach spawned singles in “Kickin’ My Heart Around”, “Only a Fool”, and “Go Faster”.

In May 2001, the band released Lions on Virgin mogul Richard Branson’s V2 record label. Singles “Lickin’” and “Soul Singing” had a solid presence on rock radio and Lions peaked at number 20 on the charts. The Black Crowes were inducted into the Guitar Center Rockwalk, a walk of fame honoring notable musical acts and artists. Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher and Slash were on hand for the ceremony. The band effectively dissolved in January 2002 with the departure of drummer Steve Gorman and an announcement that the band was “taking a hiatus.”

After several attempts at revitalizing the band, tours, albums and members….On April 21, 2010, the band announced an August 3 release date for the double, all acoustic album Croweology, as well as tour dates for the “Say Good Night to the Bad Guys Tour,” which will feature two 90-minute sets at the majority of shows: one acoustic and one electric. Another hiatus will follow the tour.

The Grascals is a six-piece bluegrass band hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2004, the band has since gained a level of notability by playing on the Grand Ole Opry and in bluegrass festivals around the country.

In 2005 the band won the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Emerging Artist of the Year Award, as well as the Song of the Year award for “Me and John and Paul”. In 2006 and 2007, they won the IBMA Entertainer of the Year.

They played one of their first shows at the Station Inn with special guest Bobby Osborne. An interesting fact to mention is that the band believed that this wouldn’t really go anywhere, almost as a side job to add a little money for their families.

In summer 2004, it became clear that Dolly Parton began to show interest in wanting to play with the Grascals. The Grascals soon became Dolly’s opening act, as well as her band. Performing at Dollywood and eventually, the Grand Ole Opry, the band quickly became one of the up and coming bluegrass bands of the year.

The Grascals went into the studio to record their third album which has been called Keep on Walkin’. It will be released July 15, 2008. The album is different from the previous one since instead of having many guests as with Long List of Heartaches, only one guest will be featured, (Vince Gill).

Lee Brice was born June 10, 1980 in Sumter, South Carolina.[1] As a child, he learned to play the piano in addition to singing in church and writing his own songs.[2] He entered and won three different talent contests in high school.

In August 2009, Brice charted with his fourth single, “Love Like Crazy,”[5] which is the first release from his debut album of the same name. Brice also co-wrote labelmate Tim McGraw’s 2010 single “Still.”[5] “Love Like Crazy” reached Top Ten on the country music charts in July 2010 during its forty-sixth week on the chart, setting a record for the slowest climb into the Top Ten in that chart’s history.[6] In September 2010, the song broke a record for the longest-charting single in the history of the Hot Country Songs chart with 55 weeks, it had been previously set by Eddy Arnold between 1948 and 1949 who spent 54 weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart with “Bouquet of Roses“.[7]

Beginning to sing at the age of three, Branch enrolled in voice lessons at Northern Arizona University when she was eight,and received her first guitar for her fourteenth birthday. After teaching herself chords, she composed her first song “Fallen” within a week of receiving her guitar.She initially attended Sedona Red Rock High School, but finished the last two years of her high school education through home schooling so that she could focus on her music career.

In July 2005, Branch began collaborating with her backup singer and longtime friend Jessica Harp. They were initially known as “The Cass County Homewreckers” as a joke by Branch’s husband, but they trimmed it down to The Wreckers.Their album attempted to combine their respective genres—pop rock and country. The duo’s first single “Leave the Pieces” was released in February, 2006, while their album Stand Still, Look Pretty was released in May.

Everything Comes and Goes was finally released as a 6-track EP on July 16, 2010 via Michelle’s website and will be available on iTunes one month later, with a full album called Different Kind of Country to follow later in the year. Branch has been working on her first solo country album which is expected for release in December 2010.

They recorded their songs with studio musicians, and a group of redneck role players to represent the group on stage and in music videos was put together. Over the years, these performers have come and gone, and as of 2007 there have been 15 different role players.

The group launched something of a minor comeback when they entered the song “Mama Take Me Home” in Semifinal 4 of the Swedish Melodifestivalen on 11 March 2006 in Gothenburg. They qualified for the final via the Second Chance Round, finishing an overall sixth in the final. The song “Mama Take Me Home” was subsequently released as a single in a few select European countries.

According to a Rednex press release , the band members Annika “Mary Joe” Ljungberg, Anders “Maverick” Lundström and Jens “Snake” Sylsjö were exchanged on January 1, 2009, bringing back former members Scarlet, Dagger, Ace Ratclaw and Joe Cagg. This is not unprecedented, Rednex have had multiple lineups over the years (for instance a previous exchange in 2001 brought in Scarlet and Dagger). However, Mary Joe, Maverick and Snake were still touring as “The Cotton Eye Joe Show presented by the Rednex Band Ltd”. This has caused the trademark owners Rednex AB to threaten them and concert organizers with legal action resulting in the cancellation of some shows

A new video was recorded on August 27 in Norrbyggeby in Sweden for the upcoming single “Devil’s On The Loose”.The song is the first single from the upcoming album “Saturday Night Beaver”. On 7 January 2010 the single was released in a partnership with The Pirate Bay for free and legal download worldwide.

After graduating from college in 2002 Bareilles performed at local bars and clubs, building a following before performing in larger venues. In January 2004, Bareilles released her first studio album, Careful Confessions. She signed a contract with Epic Records on April 15, 2005. The remainder of the year and early 2006 were spent writing and reworking songs for her upcoming album.Her song, “Gravity,” appears briefly in the 2006 independent film Loving Annabelle. She toured as the opening act in 2006 for Marc Broussard’s “Carencro” tour. In 2007, Bareilles opened for several shows on both Maroon 5 and Paolo Nutini’s U.S. tours. She also opened for James Blunt on his U.S. Tour in association with VH1 You Oughta Know.

Bareilles began work on the follow-up to her major label debut in the summer of 2009, collaborating with the likes of Amir “Questlove” Thompson, members of Weezer, and Pharrel Williams. The first single from her sophomore album, “King Of Anything,” began receiving radio airplay in the USA during May 2010,[15] and was released for sale in June.

In anticipation of the new album, Bareilles released a series of webisodes, featuring the making of select songs from “Kaleidoscope Heart,” including “King of Anything,” “Uncharted,” “Gonna Get Over You,” “Bluebird,” and a strings only version of “King of Anything.” The first webisode also contains Sara writing the chorus for “Hold My Heart”. The CD Kaleidoscope Heart is set to release on September 7, 2010.

After a bout with alcohol abuse, Adkins release an album called “Chrome” which reached the Top 5 on the country albums charts; its title track reached Top 10 in late 2002. In 2003, Adkins released two albums: a Greatest Hits collection and Comin’ on Strong.

In 2005, Adkins released his Songs About Me album. The album’s second single, “Arlington”, generated controversy over its content (a first-person account of a fictional soldier who was about to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery). It was followed by “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk“, became a highly successful crossover hit, bringing Adkins into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.

2006 saw the release of Adkins’s seventh studio album, Dangerous Man. “Swing”, the album’s lead-off single, peaked at #20, while the follow-up “Ladies Love Country Boys” became Adkins’s first Number One single on the country charts since “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing” in 1997. In August 2007, Adkins released a single entitled “I Got My Game On”.

In November 2009, Adkins embarked on the Shine All Night Tour, a co-headling venture with fellow country artist Martina McBride. Also in 2009, Adkins joined fellow country artist Blake Shelton in recording a duet titled “Hillbilly Bone,” which was released as the lead-off single from Shelton’s upcoming sixth album.

In 1979, Frampton returned to the studio following a near-fatal vehicle accident, to record the album Where I Should Be. Frampton continued to record throughout the 1980s, although his albums generally met with little commercial success. In 1995, Frampton released Frampton Comes Alive! II which contained live versions of many of the songs from his 1980s and 1990s solo albums.

On 12 September 2006, Frampton released an instrumental work titled Fingerprints. On 11 February 2007, Fingerprints was awarded the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

Frampton released his fourteenth studio album, Thank You Mr. Churchill, on 27 April 2010.In Summer 2010 he began touring North America with the English band Yes.